Improvement in reversible plows



B. P. MORRIS. Reversible Plow.

No; 199,093. Patented Jan. 8.187s.

WITNESSES m ATTORNEY I I'NVENTOR v UNITED STATES: PATENT? QFFIGE.

BENJAMIN F. MORRIS, OF SALTILLO, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOTHOMAS F. SWIFT, OF SOOTTS HILL, AND WILLIAM H. STRIOKLAND, OF DECATURCOUNTY, TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVERSIBLE PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,093, dated January8, 1878; application filed November 3, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN FRANJQIN MORRIS, of Saltillo, in the countyof Hardin and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Reversible Flows; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is arepresentation of a side view of myinvention, and Fig. 2 is a top view thereof.

This invention has relation to improvements in that class of plowswherein the share is capable of being thrown to the right or left forthe purpose of turning the sod in a correspondin g direction.

The nature of the invention consists in combining, with a beam, thereversible plow, pivoted thereto, the colter, and the forked and loopedbrace, secured to the beam and looped over the colter, and a snap-latch,extending through and pivoted to said brace.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates the beam, B thestandard, and O the share, of my improved plow.

The beam is composed of two spaced parallel metallic plates, 0 c,secured at their front ends, by means of bolts a, to a draft-bar, D,carrying on its front end the clevis b.

The standard B extends upward between the side plates 0 c of the beam,and is secured thereto by means of an eyebolt, d, extending throughregistering perforations in the beam and standard. This bolt also servesto secure the lower ends of two brace-rods, 6., which connect theplow-handles E and the beam, an ordinary nut being applied to one end ofthe bolt for the purpose.

The plow O is lozenge-shaped and longitudinally concave, and is securedto the lower end of the beam by means of a pivot, e, ex tending throughone of the obtuse angles of the plow, the other angle opposite he etobeing cut out, as shown at f. At each side of the pivot, and equidistanttherefrom, perforation, 6, is made, with one or the other of which thelower end of a vertically-vibrating snaplatch, F, is engaged, accordingto whether the plow is right or left hand. This catch is pivoted at g inthe forked end of an inclined brace, G, of which the lower end straddlesthe standard, and is secured thereto by means of a suitable bolt, y, andextends upward through the space between the plates 0 of the beam to therear within easy reach of the plowman. The inclined brace aforesaid issecured to the beam by means of abolt, h, extending through registeringperforations in the plow-handles, the beam, and the said brace, a nutbeing used to clamp the said parts together, and is provided at itsupper extremity with a loop, j, of oblong form, through which the upperend of the shank of a metallic colter, L, is passed. This colter isinclined, as shown in Fig. 1, and fits snugly in an inclined seat formedbetween the plates cby the end of the draft-bar, and a spacing-blockbolted in place between the said plates.

The colter neither vibrates rearward nor to the front, and the bracewill hold the standard immovable when under strain, even should the bolth break.

The catch F is engaged automatically with the perforations i of theplow, during the reversal of the same, by means of a spring, S, securedat one end to the said latch and bearing at the other against thestandard.

J represents a metallic rod, having at its rear end a handle-loop, h,and pivoted at its lower end to the plow. This handle extends throughthe eye is of bolt 01 rearward within reach of the man holding thehandles E.

By pressing down upon the snap-latch its down-turned end is disengagedfrom the plow, which may then be shifted from right to left,

or the reverse, by means of the operating-rod J.

The ends of the plates 0 of the beam extend to the rear of the standard,and afiord a seat between them for the shank l of a subsoil-plow, K,that is connected to the beam by a bolt, n, and its appropriate nut, andto the standard of the plows by links 0, pivoted to each side of thesaid standard at p, and to the shank of the subsoiler by a removablethrough-bolt, q.

The shank of the plow K has two or more spaced perforations, 'r, for thereception of bolt n, and a like number for bolt q, so that thepenetration of the subsoiler into the ground may be regulated atpleasure, according to the depth of the mold or surface soil. This isaccomplished by shifting the bolts n g from an upper to a lower seriesof perforations, according to whether the penetration of the subsoileris to be increased or diminished.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the beam B, the re- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MORRIS.

\Vitnesses:

J. T. MADDOX, M. MONTGOMERY.

